A large part of today’s update is on the 2013 issues of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. Most of the articles are fully available for free and describe healing practices of various groups around the world. Highly interesting stuff!!! We recommend browsing through if you have time.

Ethnobotany & ethnomedicine

Brazil: the apparency hypothesis applied to a local pharmacopoeia in the Brazilian northeast (Abstract, Free full text); traditional botanical knowledge of the southern Brazil artisan fishermen (Abstract, Free full text)

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